Birmingham Barber Vincent Oliver Lived A Life A Cut Above

Alabama News Center | July 17, 2018 @ 5:00 am

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.

Buddy Holloway of Cropwell would drive 44 miles to get his hair cut. The 90-year-old lived in East Lake for years and retired to a life on the lake.

But he didn’t change barbers.

“I tell everybody: When you’ve got the best barber, you go back,” Holloway said of his barber and friend, Vincent Oliver. “I would have probably drove 75 miles if he had moved and I had moved.”Thursday’s drive for Holloway was about 20 miles. He was among dozens who made their way to Kilgroe Funeral Home in Leeds to attend the visitation for Oliver, the man known to many as the Mayor of Woodlawn.

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